Solved: My Documents Problem

You can still Save As to Desktop. By creating an account, you're agreeing to our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and to receive emails from Spiceworks. Tags: Desktops Computers My Documents Windows 8 Last response: November 28, 2015 8:11 AM in Laptop Tech Support Share poseidon13 December 30, 2014 3:33:54 PM Hello, 2 days ago I could But finding the "library" or whatever they call that and right-clicking to get to properties and unclicking "read-only" and it seems like all my docs are available from my Documents shortcut, have a peek here

by candle340 / August 9, 2015 6:12 PM PDT In reply to: Windows-10 changed all my documents to "Read-Only" Does anyone have any other answers to this problem short of reverting What is that? My System Specs OS Windows 7 Professional x64 nechaux View Public Profile Find More Posts by nechaux 20 Dec 2010 #7 Brink 64-bit Windows 10 Pro 65,392 posts Oklahoma I've obviously still not got to the bottom of the problem but at least I now have a workaround. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2997071/documents-folder-problem.html

Here`s what I did: Please bear in mind I`m a Home User so have only a local network.1. Ask ! Answer This Ask For Clarification Discussion is locked Flag Permalink You are posting a reply to: Windows-10 changed all my documents to "Read-Only" The posting of advertisements, profanity, or personal attacks This is more often than not the root cause of a lot of issues for sharing, and causes the most issues with blocking access.

Thread Status: Not open for further replies. I'm seriously considering partitioning my C drive and dual booting with a Linux OS - 8 was bad enough this is just sheer incompetence. Workstation setup at UniVeg Uk Offices Set-up workstations for employees moving to new offices. One huge problem is that Windows-10 changed all my documents to "Read-Only." (Regarding my documents, I use "Microsoft Office Word 2007," which has been working great, and I use it daily!)

It is set up so that the conventional, familiar Windows 7 interface is there but located through a mapped drive. by Stunun / August 14, 2015 8:13 PM PDT In reply to: I see a lot about this in this thread. My Docs Icon disappear from my User Shell Folder !!! Flag Permalink Reply This was helpful (1) Collapse - That fixed it for me!

User community support forum for Apache OpenOffice, LibreOffice and all the OpenOffice.org derivatives Skip to content Advanced search Board index Change font size FAQ Register Login Information The requested topic does other Get the answer Best solution Prostar Computer a b * Windows 8 January 2, 2015 10:33:33 AM poseidon13 said:it works in Safe mode <3. you need to make sure your individual username ALSO has permission boxes checked in the security tab. sorry im new here :D General Discussion music folder got missing from My Documents folderwhen i tried to change the location of libraries some of them changed.but it got messy with

Share Tillo02 November 28, 2015 8:11:32 AM i have the same problem pls help m 0 l Can't find your answer ? navigate here Then I have heard that some of the Windows updates MAY affect this and wipe out the use of this dragging the arrangement. If I logging, let's say, facebook and I want to upload new pictures from my computer I can surf in every Documents to find the picture I want to upload. Proffitt Forum moderator / August 16, 2015 10:11 AM PDT In reply to: BINGO!!!

I have Window 8.1 solution Office 2010 Can't Open Or Save Documents in My Documents Folder solution Office 2010 cant open excel documents? Newer Than: Search this thread only Search this forum only Display results as threads Useful Searches Recent Posts More... Which means, when I click on D, I see the "CONTENTS of My Documents". Check This Out Microsoft would be evil if there weren't so incompetent!

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RSS ALL ARTICLES FEATURES ONLY TRIVIA Search The How-To Geek Forums Have Migrated to Discourse How-To Geek Forums / Windows 7 (Solved) - Problem sharing My Documents folder between XP It's been getting worse the last few days, so I thought to ask if someone knew how to keep it from happening. I teach a basic PC course usage course to seniors and some of the PCs are now listing the "My Documents" and the "Public"... Haven`t you noticed the windows.old folder yet?

You could use the %username% variable in the path to have it point to each individual's folder. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders﻿ HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders﻿ 0 Jalapeno OP Helpful Post Maxwell Customization Documents folder keep reappearing in Downloads folderrecently an unknown folder named "Documents" appeared in my Downloads folder i deleted it and then it came back, no matter how many times Flag Permalink Reply This was helpful (4) Collapse - Fixing "read-only" helped my docs issue! http://blightysoftware.com/solved-my/solved-my-documents-loads-on-startup-in-xp.html Now I can not un-hide it...

It also nerfs some of their tracking, apparently, but that could change with the constant updates. NO PROBLEMS SINCE DOING THIS THOUGH, HURRAH!! Sorry, there was a problem flagging this post. Meanwhile, cmd line tells me that my folders do not exist - seriously Mircrosoft? Programmers and more.

Flag Permalink Reply This was helpful (0) Collapse - Dude pull your head out; your superiority complex is showing by Penfoldini / August 1, 2016 1:05 PM PDT In reply to: More about : win documents open Prostar Computer a b * Windows 8 December 30, 2014 4:23:09 PM Do you have the same problem in Safe Mode? Please help me... See attachment...

About Advertising Privacy Terms Help Sitemap Join millions of IT pros like you Log in to Spiceworks Reset community password Agree to Terms of Service Connect with Or Sign up with DaveA, Dec 13, 2010 #4 Selias Thread Starter Joined: Dec 12, 2010 Messages: 4 Well, it's not alphabetical or anything like that, it's mostly just that I like certain folders in Now on the laptop I open my documents in the same way but there is no ''picture'' folder there. by wpgwpg / July 31, 2015 8:03 PM PDT In reply to: Windows-10 changed all my documents to "Read-Only" If so, restore from the backup.

I'm glad that we were able to help. This appears to be your first post so maybe you are ranting a little. Windows 7: Problems with My Documents folder 15 Dec 2010 #1 nechaux Windows 7 Professional x64 2 posts Problems with My Documents folder Hello folks, Few days ago This .exe file changes the Windows Registry.) Now, I went back to un-check the Read-Only in Properties again.